Faviola Lopez-Romani is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and horticulturist.

Through textile, sculptural, and time based practices, Lopez-Romani emphasizes active plural ontologies and nonlinear life expressions. In working with organic matter such as cotton corn husks, and silk, and natural dyes extracted from their food waste or collected from their garden, Lopez-Romani utilizes artifacts of their daily life to reconcile with legacies of Modernity to reclaim erased epistemologies.


Themes and Research
I am interested in ways to reconcile with legacies of Modernity and reclaim erased forms of knowledge and world building. I investigate methods of capturing traces and memories that stray from Cartesian tensions of form and image, of color and structure. In doing so I emphasize a plural ontology, in which forms are both structure and image, celebrated and abhorred, medicinal yet invasive. Through articulating this plurality of being, I erode notions of purity that delineate boundaries of place, property, identity and sovereign state. Through erosion I seek to relieve material and immaterial forms from the violence of inscripted and subjected being.

Technique and Practice
My practice is marked by a committed use of quotidian material, the matter that structures my daily physical life. I largely work with organic matter such as cotton corn husks, and silk, and natural dyes extracted from my food waste or collected from my garden. I utilize textile and paper making processes, such as weaving, macrame, spinning, and pulp casting, to manipulate organic fibers and naturally dyed or printed fibers. Through this process, I emphasize the physicality of color, imprinting and interweaving the memory of time and space into a textile substrate. Through this process, distinction outlines the boundaries of structure and image are dissolved, relieving objects from binary tensions.